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Wednesday, August 24,1977
University Daily Kansan
Student parents'
For many students, for eight school day begins an hour, or
even ten minutes, before their first class.
even minutes who are also parents, the day begins much earlier. But for students choosing or going to work, parents must take their children to either a parent care or a child care center.
The number of students at the University is also parents of preschool children. Jalee Gordon, assistant dean of education, said the number of student parents attending the University of Kansas was increasing every year.
You should be able to resume as early as enrollment to get some ideas on the number of student classes they their problems and needs.
needs. . . Gordon Hall.
THE SURVEY IS being conducted by the KU Child Care Council on eight in-person committee appointed by Del Shankel,
coordinator vice-chancellor.
Our goal is to send the convoy that tentatively planned to put the surveys to realigning packets.
Lost fall, the collect had a table in front of Hoch Aurorium.
Although it received about 400 responses, the number was insufficient to draw reliable conclusions.
If the results of this year's survey indicate a need for better child care services, a recommendation will be presented to Shankar.
SCHOOL
ONLY PROBLEM FACING PARENTS is what to do when a child
looks unhappy. One parent usually has to stay home and russ classes or
work sometimes both. Other problems include what to do with
primary age children before and after school, and where to
have children if the parent has to go to the library or wants to
attend campus events.
However, several services can aid student parents in
LIVEWORKS.
Hilton Child Development Center, 1413 Grand St. across the street from the Karen Union, has a new program offering child care services during home football games. Hilton Children's Hospital is located in the department of human development and family life.
needs surveyed
Konyan Blunt, student employment counselor, said he pasted part-time jobs for students and taught them outside of school. Students at the institution did in her aid.
FOR PARENTS WHO want to hire a babybatter for special occasions or even on a regular basis, the Student Employment Center, in the basement of Strontium Hall, keeps a file on parents who need tutors and on students who want to do baby-biting.
there are 11 licensed full-day facilities, 19 licensed half-day programs and 17 licensed home day care centers in Douglas County. Licensing assures parents that safety standards and other regulations are met.
THE DEAN OF WOMEN'S office has a complete list of licensed child care centers and homes for inquiring parents. The list give information on fees, the number or staff members, age limitations, hours and programs.
Finding the best and most economical child care facilities can become a difficult and sometimes impossible adventure. Such problems force some parents into "switching off" or taking turns watching the children.
turn walking along the street, 'The parent of three said, "It can become tricky but things could be worse."'
sometimes, but things could be worse.
Class schedules have to be planned so they dope conflict with
the appeals, and often times, this requires staying on campus
until both are finished for the day.
PATTESSON SAID MS kept the children entertained by playing frisbee.
the trader.
Most of our centers are booked as much as a year in advance, others have only a few openings. If there are no available places, they usually fill up within a few weeks after enrollment. To those parents needing help for child care, Social Rehabilitation Services (SRS) is the federal agency administering this TAX funds, managed by raised by the Douglas County Child Development Association. The money is then triple matched federally and locally.
The University of Kansas 'West Campus,
which lies on a beautiful street, is best known
with its uniforms.
The typical student has no reason to have any contact with West Camphus because it is a remote area.
a support company, a son, a director of facilities planning, a son, a support company provided planning, and a support company provided
Auxiliary services on West Campus include facilities for graduate and undergraduate private corporations graduate services on the university degree-granting branches of the University.
Lawton said some departments that were not directly related to daily teaching activities had been moved to West Campus to provide more teaching space on the main
THE FACILITIES INCLUDE the Kansas and U.S. Geological Surveys, the Kansas Biological Survey, Pharmaceutical Chemistry Labs, the Space Technology Center, Interx Research Corporation, the Low Temperature Laboratory, the KU Printing Services and the KU Endowment Association.
campus:
West Campus has no regular classrooms.
Venus probe
The Space Technology Center has been publicized because of its role in developing the Vernus probe for NASA.
West Campus offers variety of services
Vincent Maruhead, professor of aerospace engineering, said the aerodynamic characteristics of the probe were being tested in an uncontrolled environment and will be used by NASA to determine wind patterns on Venus when the actual probe takes place in late 1978.
The Office of Minority Affairs could be one of the most obscure offices on campus, although it addresses the needs of many more students than minorities.
The office is scheduled to move to Strong Hall this fall, however, and Townsend said she thought this move would help alleviate the problem.
"STRONG HALL'S CENTRAL location provides better access to the students and puts the office in the administration building where it belongs," she said.
Mary Townsend, director, said that many minorities at the University of Kansas didn't even know where the office was or even that它 explained. She said the location was part of the problem. The office is at 220 Carruth O'Leary.
Culture spread to 'non-minorities'
Many of the programs are designed to give non-minority individuals an on-
The programs sponsored by the office are the creations of four staff members. Unlike most offices, which employ a vertical power structure, Minority Affairs uses a horizontal structure to give the whole staff access to information in program production (lowend said).
performance to become acquainted with minority groups' values and cultures. However, uponward said that the most white women present were the women and the programs presented by her office.
"DON'T NEED to learn about my ethnic and cultural background. These programs are really for the non-minority individual," she said.
The program also has presented such films as "The Man" and "Raisin in the Sun." But because of the office's limited budget, the programs must be done at a minimal cost.
The Cultural Enrichment Program is the most widely known program sponsored by the office. In the past, speakers for the program have been actors Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis and authors Vine Deloria Jr., Enrique "Hank" Lopez and Marcia Ann Gillespie, editor-in-chief of Essence Magazine.
"I feel sometimes like I'm caught in a sandwich between the needs of minority students and the University's desire for a smaller budget." Townsend said.
However, since she became director of
the office she has managed to double the budget, she said.
Many other programs Minority Affairs sponsors are the kind no one notices, Townsend said. For instance, the office aids in the University of Arizona to recruit faculty and students.
adget, SHRM Inc.
THE OFFICE OF MINORITY Resource
Counselors books, tapes, college
catalogs, newspapers, magazines and
periodicals to eventually provide a library
for students and faculty conducting
minority related research.
Townsend said that while her main emphasis was on the recruitment of minority students, she tried to recruit non-minority students as well.
THE OFFICE LACKS the scholarships needed to attract minority students, she said, and the office budget provides no travel or use in recruiting individuals.
Townsend said the office had never had a federal grant proposal approved.
THE MINORITY AFFAIRS office conducts exit interviews with departing minority faculty in an attempt to learn why they decided to leave, Townsend said.
faculty or students, she said, because the minority faculty and students find them.
However, those schools and departments which are committed to minority students are the minorities in the schools.
A pilot study revealed three prevalent reasons for a minority faculty member's departure. Most minority faculty cited a lack of ethnic community, racism with their departure, and a lack of support from minority faculty members as their main reasons for leaving.
The office provides assistance with admissions procedures and applications for student financial aid. It acts as an intermediary for individuals who encounter problems on campus and complies relevant data to sensitize the University community to the needs and frustrations of minority groups and individuals.
THE MOST IMPORTANT function of the office, she said, was to provide free academic and personal counseling to both minority and non-minority students.
Janet Bare, staff member, said the lab used radar and microwave to do remote sensing. She said they were currently doing research involving remote sensing from trucks that might eventually specify hard-to-reach a sensing system to be used in satellites.
ANOTHER NASA PROJECT in the Space
Tech building is in the remote sensing lab.
NASA program
The system will produce high altitude photo images of crop patterns, she said.
Lawton said NASA also has an educational program in addition to its space program. NASA agreed to construct Nichols Hall and build a campus near the University for the building.
BY LOCATING RESEARCH facilities near KU, NASA benefits from the knowledge of the professors, and KU benefits from NASA's sponsorship, Lawton
1002 the department of pharmaceutical chemistry labs is in another building on campus.
Some of the research in the labs is sponsored by the National Cancer Institute. Higuchi said his department was working in collaboration with KU Medical Center to analyze the blood of patients receiving anticancer therapy.
other research is being conducted, he said, to produce different anti-cancer drugs.
HIGUCHI SAID RESEARCH at the pharmaceutical chemistry labs was among the best in the country.
Part of the department's research is done by Interx, an independent corporation headed by Higachi. The Interx building is next to the pharmaceutical chemistry labs and leases land from the KU Endowment Association.
Endowment Association
The Endowment Association, located behind Nichols Hall, owns all the land between West 15th and West 23rd streets, with a distance of about a mile to include West Campus.
Land for the buildings is leased to the university, private corporations located there, and other organizations.
Lawton said that funds for purchasing the land came from alumni gifts.
According to Todd Seymour, president of the Endowment Association, income from the lease of land on West Campus represents only 10% of all funds it represents only part of their investment program.
Low-interest loans and scholarships, are funded by the association, he said.
THE KANASIS GEOLOGICAL Survey is in Moore Hall, and the U.S. Geological Survey is in Parker Hall. The buildings are joined by a glass-enclosed walkway.
Also on West Campus are the state and federal geological survey buildings.
Dean Lebekty, associate director of the Kansas Geological Survey, said personnel at the site were on alert.
together. Members of the state survey work on projects in the federal survey building, be said, and the federal survey sometimes uses the state survey's facilities.
Paul Jordan, hydrologist for the U.S. Geological Survey, said the U.S. Survey primarily researched groundwater resources.
The U.S. Geological Survey has 180 gauging stations on streams throughout the state which measure water flow within Kansas, Jordan said.
A study of the flood plain of the Wakauras River is also being conducted, he said, to determine possible flood hazards. The river is used to set rates (or federal flood insurance).
THE WATER RESOURCES division of the state survey works in cooperation with the U.S. Survey, Jordan said. The state and federal agencies agreed to equal amounts of money for joint projects.
Roderick Hardy, director of information and education for the Kansas Geological Survey, said KU was recognized as a world leader in developing geological research based on mathematics and computer technology.
Low temperature lab
The Low Temperature Lab on West Campus is also recognized world-wide for its research, Frank Garen, lab supervisor, said.
said.
The lab provides research facilities for the department of chemical engineering, Garen said. Work there involves research under temperatures as low as -320 degrees Fahrenheit or pressures up to 1,000 pounds per square inch.
peat A FIVE-FOOT-HIGH metal “pot” in the building resembles a large pressure cooker and contains a miniature model of a gas reservoir.
Only one other high-pressure pot exists in the world, Garen said. The pots are used to help predict the ease of production and the life of oil wells, he said.
The Kansas Biological Survey, like the Kansas Agricultural Survey, gathers information for the application.
The Survey's collection teams work from spring to fall in Caldwell, said matter, to gather data.
ONE RESULT OF the teams' efforts is a herbarium, or plant library, of pressed and dried native plants. The herbarium, which contains nearly one-fourth of a million samples and is stored in steel canisters, is evidence in research projects, Caldwell said.
Caldwell said the collection was on of the largest in the Great Plains area.
Printing service
the incoffees are printed by the Univer-
sity of North Carolina; living services located off West 15th Street.
The survey publishes a series of booklets written for the general public on subjects such as skunks, ticks and poison ivy.
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